VFW Citizen Of The Year Award - Tempe Daily News
DateApril 29, 1977
MediumEmulsion on paper
Dimensions5 x 5 in. (12.7 x 12.7 cm)
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Catalog number2001.19.834
DescriptionFrom an article/photograph published by Tempe Daily News, April 30, 1977:Citizen of the Year -
Many of Tempe's most prominent citizens turned out last night to honor former Gov. Howard Pyle, second from right, who was unanimously, voted "Citizen of the Year" by the Bob Finch Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Among those involved in the program, the 36th Birthday celebration of the Post, included, from left, Max Connolly, emcee for the evening; Tempe Mayor Bill LoPiano, who presented the plaque to Pyle; Eugene J. Beauperlant, Post Commander; Pyle; and Frank Connolly, who introduced the award winner. The publisher of the Tempe Daily News, Connolly received the first "Citizen of the Year" award presented in 1950 by the post.
See also 2001.19.831.
The film negative of this photograph is housed in box 2G7-B.
Status
Not on view
April 29, 1977
April 29, 1977
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c. 1980
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